But the movie is the lowest-budgeted feature that Cameron, who serves as its executive producer, has been involved with in more than 25 years, and it”s an important test of his belief that 3-D can be as effective in an intimate, emotional story as it is in a grand epic. Life and death are not quite at stake when “Sanctum,” a modestly budgeted ($30million), 3-D, cave-diving adventure comes out in theaters on Friday. “It was like sitting with God at the pearly gates watching your entire life.” “Every time he”d twitch, I wondered, ”Oh no, what did I do wrong?”” recalled Grierson, 41, who had previously directed only one other movie, a small Australian war picture. The Australian filmmaker, who made his new movie, “Sanctum,” under the guiding hand of “Avatar” creator James Cameron, had to present a finished cut to the famously exacting director in Cameron”s Malibu home theater.
With dwindling supplies, the crew must navigate an underwater labyrinth to make it.If you think your boss is intimidating, imagine how Alister Grierson feels. But when his exit is cut off in a flood, Frank team - including 17-year-old son Josh (Rhys Wakefield) and financier Carl Hurley (Ioan Gruffudd) - are forced to radically alter plans. Master diver Frank McGuire (Richard Roxburgh) has explored the South Pacific Esa-ala Caves for months. When a tropical storm forces them deep into the caverns, they must fight raging water, deadly terrain and creeping panic as they search for an unknown escape route to the sea.
Sanctum (2011): The 3-D action-thriller Sanctum, from executive producer James Cameron, follows a team of water cave divers on a treacherous expedition to the largest, most beautiful and least accessible cave system on earth.
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